I do not know or care what Gruber thinks about I-P please do not inform me

no its a figure of speech

I went back for another look today and the second Gruber Twitter thread I clicked on had someone calling him a Zio in his replies so maybe not even all the way making it on his own terms?

iff Kelly Clarkson they should have let her hold the fan

if you have even a second of wondering, "well maybe she did something..." -- she was raided by DHS, not the FBI

if, as I just did, you searched for Frank Lance and found a different DC area parks guy who seemed unlikely as the person in question

*Frank Lands I think

lots! she’s very famous! but perhaps less so in game stores

with this level of customer service widespread in the industry it’s hard to command premium prices

it did not

yes!

not in reference to anything in particular, more of a general aphorism, like that famous cliché “always sell your $15k mechanical bird to Kelly Clarkson”

most of the time the customer does not in fact want to pay $15k for the mechanical bird. almost always, even

extremely niche content here but I don’t think you can infer “generally bad at customer service” from “small games store doesn’t think customer is serious buyer for $15k display mechanical bird”

doesn’t that mean they nailed the Jags home game experience

it’s a lot less clear that banning eg residential construction asbestos is a net health win if it commits us to fire hazard levels like we had c 1920

I think it’s important for purposes of this analogy that a reason we banned asbestos is that we developed alternative materials which could deliver most of the significant benefits of asbestos ~without its deleterious effects

sorta in “don’t love but it’s fine” territory on both, like -maxxing better than -pilled because I think it’s more semantically useful

I don’t think of myself as a huge prude about this stuff but I do believe that language leaves its marks on you